We notice in the
Sunday Minneapolis Journal that Greenwood’s former principal,
Aaron Heyward, has recently been elected president of the
tri-counties teacher’s association for Pembina, Walsh and
Grand Forks counties, N.D., and a good likeness of Mr. Heyward
appears with the account. He is still at Cavalier, whence he went
from Greenwood.

In a recent copy
of the Minot, N. D. Daily Optic we note that G. J. Smith of La
Follette is a Republican candidate for the house of representatives
of that state. A good likeness is also published in the same issue.
A while back he was running for clerk of the circuit court in his
home county, Ward, but evidently a larger bee nestled in his bonnet
since his first announcement. Here are best wishes. The North
Dakotans can give George credit from the start of being a
persistent, hard worker.

Wenatchee, Wash.,
May 10, 1906. Mr. J. E. Noyes, Editor, Greenwood, Wis., Dear Sir:
Having read in a couple of numbers back, the account of the life of
the Greenwood Band it occurred to me that the writer had forgotten
one of the most important things that lasts in my memory. It was
the Sunday we all went over to the old mills acrossed the river to
practice on the first six numbers on our lessons. We would start on
a number with its whole notes and drawl them out as long as our
breaths would last. Then on the halves, quarters, etc. until we got
to old number 6 where there was a sort of a melody and there we
thought we were playing Poet & Peasant, Country Club Waltzes,
Anvil Polka or some such standard selection. And the way we swelled
out was a caution. Some left occasionally and then some one else
until two or three were alone who kept on as if the whole bunch
were playing. The last were Claire Hunt, Herb White and Hix Mead
and when I got to the bridge I could hear them still playing over
and over again old number 6.

An eastern
"tenderfoot" in the person of O. H. Baird arrived here last week
from Greenwood all covered with dust and tired out with the
journey. Will Smith thought he would initiate him before he got
rested so the next morning he got him astride of a Cayouse and took
him up in the mountains for an outing. They were gone all day
having been in the saddle continuously and when Hastings got here
he said he never felt better and so young for many years and was
not a bit tired. The next forenoon he came down to the office about
ten o’clock taking steps about six inches long and groaning
at every stride. That is nearly all there is to it but if you want
to know how he felt just ask him. Since then he has learned quite a
bit and yesterday he went to drive a sawmill on a 4,000 foot
elevation. We won’t let him go back until he is a full
fledged Westerner. Yours truly, Smith H. Miller

CURING BRAIN BY
PROXY.

New Balance of
Seat of Reason Can Be Restored.

With the
surroundings of the brain proper there have been remarkable
surgical achievements; some of them in operations performed half a
body’s length from the disturbed organ. Between the brain
proper and its lining is a shallow sea of fluid which extends all
the way down the hollow inside of the spine, around the spinal
cord. If this fluid becomes deranged or compressed the brain is
affected. Now, in one part of the head this liquid substance
constitutes a little spirit level, like a carpenter’s level,
which serves to keep the human machine properly balanced. Sometimes
the fluid in this level increases beyond the normal capacity. Then
the patient is annoyed by constant ringing in the ears and
presently becomes subject to severe and dangerous vertigo. This is
because the unconscious sense of balance is disturbed. A few years
ago the medical faculty were at a loss for a cure. Now they know
that the brain fluids may be controlled from the spine. So they tap
the victim of the deranged spirit level near the base of the spine,
draw off the surplus fluid and send him on his way, relieved,
balanced and rejoicing. This lumbar tapping is of inestimable value
in the diagnosing of meningitis, abscesses and other cerebral
diseases; the examination of the fluid drawn from the spine, in
fact, affording diagnosis for all brain diseases other than the
purely nervous affections. - McClure’s Magazine.

NEW FIELD FOR
YOUNG WOMEN

Comparatively
Short Course Makes Trained Attendants of Them.

The young man in
chambers and the young woman in her tiny flat are subject to
ailments like the rest of mankind, says a writer in Leslie’s
Weekly. They are very likely living alone, without relatives or
near friends to help them, and they cannot afford to either house a
professional nurse or to pay her price. Many of these, with a
natural shrinking from a hospital, are grateful for the services of
a trained attendant who lives in her own place and attends by the
day or week.

This comparatively
new profession opens up a large and, so far, uncrowded field for
the young woman whom nature has not endowed with a special talent
for anything else, and who needs must become a servant, a she??
girls and young women an opportune?? her own living. To give this
class of girls and young women an opportunity, and also to supply
the demand for trained attendants in homes of both rich and poor,
training schools have been established in several large cities
under the auspices of the Young Women’s Christian
Association. The original school of this nature is in Boston, the
largest and most efficient in Manhattan, with an auxiliary in
Brooklyn.

For Self
Supporting Students.

Secretary E. F.
Riley of the regents of the University of Wisconsin has just
published a pamphlet descriptive of ways and means employed by
self-supporting students in earning their way through the
university. The pamphlet, which was prepared by a student of the
university who investigated the subject recently, gives a complete
summary of the opportunities for obtaining work by students who
desire to support themselves during their university course, and is
intended for distribution to prospective students interested in the
subject. The statistics given in the pamphlet show that the number
of supporting students at the University of Wisconsin is larger
than ever before, and that the demand for student help by the
citizens of Madison has often exceeded the supply.

M. E.
Announcements.

Services in the M.
E. Churches May 20, Longwood at 10:45 a. m., Hemlock at 2:00 p. m.,
Greenwood at 8:00 in the evening. We invite all to be present. - C.
O. Presnall, Pastor.

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